Chapter One: Introduction to Life Span, Growth and Development
Chapter Two: Developmental Theories
Chapter Three: Heredity, Prenatal Development, and Birth
Chapter Four: Infancy
Chapter Five: Early Childhood
Chapter Six: Middle Childhood
Chapter Seven: Adolescence
Chapter Eight: Early Adulthood
Chapter Nine: Middle Adulthood
Chapter Ten: Late Adulthood
Chapter Eleven: Death and Dying

The module examines the changes that take place in human beings across a broad range of areas including cognitive development, language development, personality and social development. In all these topics, the main focus is on the adolescent, the learner you will handle as a teacher.

This course is designed to provide an engaging and personally relevant overview of the discipline of Developmental Psychology. In this course you will examine the cultural, social, psychological, and physiological influences which imp[act human development from conception to death. You - the student - will provide much of the substantive content and teaching presence in this course.

Table of Contents:
I. Faculty Resources
II. Chapter 1: Lifespan Psychology
III. Chapter 2: Developmental Theories
IV. Chapter 3: Prenatal Development
V. Chapter 4: Infancy
VI. Chapter 5: Early Childhood
VII. Chapter 6: Middle Childhood
VIII. Chapter 7: Adolescence
IX. Chapter 8: Early Adulthood
X. Chapter 9: Middle Adulthood
XI. Chapter 10: Late Adulthood
XII. Chapter 11: Death and Dying
XIII. Course Information
XIV. Course Schedule
XV. Experience Developmental Psychology
XVI. Module 1 - Foundations of Developmental Psychology / Theories of Development
XVII. Student Contributed Content - Share interesting class-related information here.
XVIII. Culminating Activities - We're almost done!
XIX. Coffee House: Relax - Take a Break - Socialize!

Psychology through the Lifespan by Beyer, A. & Lazzara, J. is a derivative of Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective by Lally, M. & Valentine-French, S., Lifespan Psychology. by Overstreet, L., Adolescent Development by Lansford, J., Emerging Adulthood. by Arnett, J. in R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (Eds), Noba textbook series: Psychology, and The Developing Parent by: Diener, M. and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Revised, 3rd edition: June 2020

1. Chapter 1: Intro to Lifespan Growth and Development
2. Chapter 2: Developmental Theories
3. Chapter 3: Heredity, Prenatal Development, and Birth
4. Chapter 4: Infancy to Toddlerhood
5. Chapter 5: Early Childhood
6. Chapter 6: Middle Childhood
7. Chapter 7: Adolescence
8. Chapter 8: Emerging Adulthood
9. Chapter 9: Early Adulthood
10. Chapter 10: Middle Adulthood
11. Chapter 11: Late Adulthood
12. Chapter 12: Death and Dying

This course will introduce the student to the psychology behind gender and sexuality. In this course, the student will take a look at how our understanding of one's own gender and sex can affect different aspects of our functioning, while also identifying the factors in our lives that can impact oneĺÎĺĺÎĺs gender and sex. This course will begin by introducing and defining the concepts of gender and sexuality, then looking at the similarities and differences between sexes in terms of biological and neurological functioning and development, as well as gender and sexual identity. Also, the student will discuss why and how the sexes are psychologically and cognitively different. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: define and explain specific terms that relate to gender and sexuality; define and explain influences that impact homosexual and heterosexual gender identities; define and explain sexual stereotypes; explain the biologically based characteristics, including differences and similarities, between genders; explain the differences between gender identities, including theoretical approaches; explain the sociobiological and psychoanalytic approaches to sexuality and gender identity; define and explain the social learning and cognitive developmental approaches to gender and sexuality; explain the commonalities and differences between the cognitive abilities of genders; explain the commonalities and differences between gender and aggression. (Psychology 406)

Human developmental (often referred to as developemental psychology is the study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire lifespan. Developmental psychologists aim to explain how thinking, feeling, and behaviors change throughout life. This field examines change across three major dimensions: physical development, cognitive development, and socioemotional development. Within these three dimensions are a broad range of topics including motor skills, executive functions, moral understanding, language acquisition, social change, personality, emotional development, self-concept, and identity formation.

This includes the books Human Development Life Space and Lifespan Development - A Psychological Perspective

This open textbook is designed for Human Development, a core Psychology course. This course provides a bird’s eye view of major milestones and developmental tasks during each age period, starting at conception and ending with old age.

Table of Contents
Unit I: Meta-theories
Unit 2: Research Methods
Unit 3: Infancy
Unit 4: Family
Unit 5: Early Childhood
Unit 6: Middle Childhood
Unit 7: Adolescence
Unit 8: Early Adulthood
Unit 9: Middle Adulthood
Unit 10: Late Adulthood

This textbook is designed for Chemeketa Community College's PSY 201. NOBA provides ancillary materials, and a common course cartridge is also available by request with more quiz questions for this content. Print copies are available from http://www.lulu.com/shop/noba-project/introduction-to-psychology-mind-body/paperback/product-22882311.html.

People have a deep intuition about what has been called the “nature–nurture question.” Some aspects of our behavior feel as though they originate in our genetic makeup, while others feel like the result of our upbringing or our own hard work. The scientific field of behavior genetics attempts to study these differences empirically, either by examining similarities among family members with different degrees of genetic relatedness, or, more recently, by studying differences in the DNA of people with different behavioral traits. The scientific methods that have been developed are ingenious, but often inconclusive. Many of the difficulties encountered in the empirical science of behavior genetics turn out to be conceptual, and our intuitions about nature and nurture get more complicated the harder we think about them. In the end, it is an oversimplification to ask how “genetic” some particular behavior is. Genes and environments always combine to produce behavior, and the real science is in the discovery of how they combine for a given behavior.